#72 – The Mark of Gideon

Another episode whose plot was so silly that I couldn’t take this poster too seriously! I found Odona and her father especially grating! At least Spock had some good scenes. Only 7 more episodes in this series!

I became interested in Trek in the 1970s, thanks largely to the animated series. Thanks to Blish’s novelizations, I read a lot of the TOS stories before I ever saw them, including “TMoG”. The “mime troupe” rather creeped me out the first time I saw them.

Oh, and the angry Vulcan is probably mad because Jim gets the beautiful women while he gets stuck with the bureaucrats. ^_^

However, the K/S yaoi fangirls would probably say the Vulcan is mad because the beautiful women are moving in on his boyfriend–despite THE GREAT BIRD HIMSELF shooting a photon torpedo into such speculations in the novelization of the first movie. xD